Hue hospital, RoK’s medical centre cooperate in liver transplant

Thua Thien-Hue (VNA) – The Hue Central Hospital and the Republic of
Korea (RoK)’s ASAN Medical Centre signed a cooperation agreement on regional-
and international-level liver transplant programme in Hue city on October 16.

Under the agreement, the ASAN Medical Centre will create conditions for the Hue
Central Hospital to train high-quality human resources; send its leading experts
to the Vietnamese hospital to share experience in liver examination, treatment
and transplant; and offer remote consultations in complex cases.

The signing is considered an important milestone in the two sides’ cooperation to
help the Hue Central Hospital become a specialised medical centre on organ
transplantation that meets regional and international standards.

In addition, the two sides have also collaborated in several international-level
liver transplantation programmes as well as organised conferences and seminars
to share experience in liver examination and treatment in Vietnam.

The ASAN Medical Centre, with its ASAN Central Hospital, was set up in 1989. The
centre conducted living-donor liver transplants for adults in 1999, dual
living-donor liver transplants in 2000, and ABO-incompatible dual-graft adult
living donor liver transplantation in 2003.

It recorded the highest number of liver transplants in the world in 2012 with
379 cases and the figure increased to 468 in 2017.

In addition to the Hue Central Hospital, the centre has cooperated with other
Vietnamese hospitals like Cho Ray Hospital, HCM City Oncology Hospital and Bach
Mai Hospital in the field.-VNA